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After a weeklong delay that ODOT officials blamed on brutal winter weather, work on the $200
million I-71/670 project is to start up again tonight and will continue all week.

Before temperatures dipped last week, crews had regularly worked from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. on the
interstate, said Nancy Burton, an Ohio Department of Transportation spokeswoman.

This week’s thaw was good news, she said. All this week at 9 p.m., northbound I-71 will be
reduced to one lane from the split to I-670. Eastbound I-670 will be reduced to one lane between
Cleveland and St. Clair avenues.

At 10 p.m. each night, all northbound I-71 traffic must exit at I-670 east. The detour is
Leonard Avenue to westbound I-670 to northbound I-71. By 5 a.m., both lanes of I-670 and northbound
I-71 will reopen.